Our Manifesto

Excess Consumption exists solely to promote public transit, walkable communities, environmental conservation, and to stop the infinite urban spawl enveloping the United States.

The American Society of Civil Engineers reports that 45% of Americans have no access to public transit, and most existing systems are ageing and dilapidated. While owning a vehicle is a luxury, a vehicle dominated society is the driving engine behind the soulless suburban hellscapes taking over the places we live.

The reason cities in the United States are so car-centric is as ugly as the cities in question have become. Oil corporations lobbied to have cities intentionally designed to be essentially inaccessible without a vehicle, while simultaneously demolishing existing tram lines/other forms of public transit that connected communities. Many of the highway systems cutting through cities were intentionally placed to isolate minority communities from downtown and financial districts.

Due to the dependence on motor vehicles in the United States, cities have expanded exponentially into suburbs that are extremely inefficient environmentally, and economically. We are actively destroying forests to build parking lots that could have been avoided with a more efficient transportation system.

We can write thousands of words outlining why public transportation is so important, and we encourage you to read into it yourselves. Our goal is to use artful and creative mediums to spread this message, and to hopefully advance these ideas far enough so that one day we can take a bullet train from NYC to LA, walk to work, and be proud of the sustainability in the communities we call home